“AMERICA’S MOST HAUNTED PRISONS” and More Creepy Paranormal Stories! #WeirdDarkness
Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories
Darren Marlar
4.6 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
IN THIS EPISODE: Would you stay at your grandparents’ house if their entire neighborhood was haunted? (“Grandpa and Grandma’s House”) *** When it comes to hardened criminals in tough prisons, there is no escape… not even in death. (“America’s Most Haunted Prisons”) *** At least 45 deaths of young men are attributed to the Smiley Face Killer, but most police departments say he doesn’t exist. (“The Smiley Face Killer”) *** And finally, by special request, I will narrate the classic Edgar Allan Poe story - “The Black Cat”!
SOURCES AND REFERENCES FROM THE EPISODE…
“Grandpa and Grandma’s House”: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yxxfrdma
“America’s Most Haunted Prisons” written by Troy Taylor: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/55828b4t
“The Smiley Face Killer”: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/yx2y4xvc
“The Black Cat” written by Edgar Allan Poe (1845): https://poestories.com/read/blackcat
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OTHER PODCASTS I HOST…
Paranormality Magazine: (COMING SEPT. 30, 2023) https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/paranormalitymag
Micro Terrors: Scary Stories for Kids: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/microterrors
Retro Radio – Old Time Radio In The Dark: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/retroradio
Church of the Undead: https://weirddarkness.tiny.us/churchoftheundead
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"I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Hi, it's Darren. I need to take just a quick moment to let you know, I need to |
| 0:41.0 | leave town for a family emergency and will likely not be able |
| 0:44.1 | to post new episodes for the next week or two. |
| 0:46.8 | But I will post archive episodes so you'll continue to get daily content. |
| 0:50.9 | Hopefully you either will not have heard the episodes before or you won't mind hearing |
| 0:54.7 | them again. |
| 0:55.7 | I'll be back with new episodes as soon as possible. |
| 0:58.5 | I might be on Facebook and Twitter during this time, depending on what happens, so you can |
| 1:02.1 | follow me there if you'd like just |
| 1:03.6 | look for weird darkness at both. Thanks to all of you for being loyal weirdo |
| 1:08.2 | listeners. You mean the world to me. |
| 1:10.1 | Stories and When reason returned with the morning, when I had slept off the fumes of the night's debauch, I experienced a sentiment half of horror, half of remorse for the crime of which I had been guilty. But it was at best a feeble and equivocal |
| 1:47.6 | feeling, and the soul remained untouched. I again plunged into excess and soon drowned in whine all memory of the deed. |
| 1:57.0 | In the meantime, the cat slowly recovered. |
| 2:01.0 | The socket of the lost eye presented, it is true a frightful appearance, but he no longer appeared to suffer any pain. |
| 2:10.0 | He went about the house as usual, but as might be expected, fled in extreme terror at my approach. |
| 2:18.6 | I'm Darren Marler and this is Weird Darkness. |
| 2:24.0 | Welcome weird darkness. Welcome weirdos, I'm Darren Marler and this is Weird Darkness. Here you'll find stories |
| 2:38.6 | of the paranormal, supernatural, legends, lore, crime, conspiracy, mysterious, macabre, unsolved, |
| 2:47.5 | unsolved, and unexplained. |
| 2:50.3 | If you're new here, welcome to the show, and if you're already a member of this |
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